Floor Clock - Ogden Park Plaza, Chicago, IL
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N 41° 53.400 W 087° 37.218
16T E 448539 N 4637749
A large clock set in a plaza. Metal arms (used to be, now no longer working) are in the center and red granite numbers form a circular clockface. Installed in 1989, the clock is approximately 4 ft. high x 72 ft. diameter.
Waymark Code: WM6NAG
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2009
Views: 28
In 1988, Chicago Dock and Canal Trust donated slightly more than an acre of property to the Chicago Park District for recreational development at Cityfront Center. Designed by Lohan Associates in 1990, Ogden Plaza Park a multi-leveled plaza studded with trees and benches. A large outdoor sculpture, "Floor Clock II," created by internationally-recognized artist Vito Acconci provides a focal point for the plaza.
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist.
Price of Admission: Not Listed
Height of object in feet: Not listed
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